Dem Lawmaker Draws Ire Over Guatemala Pride Comment

Rep. Delia Ramirez is under fire, including from some Republicans demanding that she be deported, after she said at an appearance in Mexico that she is a “proud Guatemalan before” “an American.”

“Denaturalize, deport, and kick her off [the] Homeland Committee. We know where her allegiances lie,” Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., wrote on X after the clip of the Illinois Democrat’s comments, made in Spanish while speaking at a Mexico City summit this past weekend, went viral, according to Newsweek on Tuesday. 

The Department of Homeland Security also responded on X, posting the video and quoting late President Theodore Roosevelt’s call for Americans to hold their allegiance to the United States. 

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